Despite Grandma Jenny’s bracing talk that she could change things by making lists and prioritizing, she had a feeling she was incapable of getting any of it right. Just look at how badly she was bungling things with her daughter and her grandmother. How had this happened to her? From the moment she’d been old enough to know her own mind, she’d set goals and met them. Heck, she’d exceeded most of them. She’d overcome every single obstacle that had been thrown in her path. Determined to go to an out-of-state school, she’d won a scholarship that had allowed her to go to Columbia in New York City. Barely out of college and only recently married, she’d found herself pregnant. She’d had Kelsey and still stayed on her career track, though the difficulty she’d had was just one of the reasons she was so worried about what lay ahead for her daughter. When her husband had left for the third and final time after two roller-coaster years, she’d tightened the reins on her spending and managed to stay in the co-op apartment they’d bought together.
